Dewey Dell
Pgs 58-64
“It’s like everything in the world for me is inside a tub of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important. He is a big tub of guts and I am a little tub of guts and if there’s not any room for anything else important in a big tub of guys how can it be room in a little tub of guts…It’s because I am alone. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone…” pgs 58-59
Literary Devices- Throughout this passage Dewey Dell continues to repeat the words guts and alone. Faulkner uses those two words to characterize Dewey Dell as a very childish one dimensional character. During this passage the reader can also infer that she is a typical woman of the time period and wants a man to be by her side to take care of her. The repetition of the word “alone” makes the reader infer that she needs a man by her side to complete her. The syntactical arrangement of this passage is very simple and child-like. The arrangement of the passage can let the reader infer that Dewey Dell is throwing a temper-tantrum. This simple language is used to let the reader feel how Dewey Dell feels about what is going on around her.
Pgs 58-64
“It’s like everything in the world for me is inside a tub of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important. He is a big tub of guts and I am a little tub of guts and if there’s not any room for anything else important in a big tub of guys how can it be room in a little tub of guts…It’s because I am alone. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone…” pgs 58-59
Literary Devices- Throughout this passage Dewey Dell continues to repeat the words guts and alone. Faulkner uses those two words to characterize Dewey Dell as a very childish one dimensional character. During this passage the reader can also infer that she is a typical woman of the time period and wants a man to be by her side to take care of her. The repetition of the word “alone” makes the reader infer that she needs a man by her side to complete her. The syntactical arrangement of this passage is very simple and child-like. The arrangement of the passage can let the reader infer that Dewey Dell is throwing a temper-tantrum. This simple language is used to let the reader feel how Dewey Dell feels about what is going on around her.
I think that Dewey Dell and Dorothy from the “Wizard of Oz” are very similar. Dorothy is very ignorant and thrives on the fact that she wants to go home because she feels alone in Oz. Although Dorothy tries to handle her situation on her own, she always has people guiding her along the way. If it wasn’t for Glinda and Auntie Em, Dorothy would never have found her way home. Like Dorothy, throughout the chapter, Dewey Dell keeps repeating this young man’s name because she wants to be guided through her tough time and to her "home", with Addie.
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